Priviliges to Man
When
Al-Haqq (TWT) created man, the creature that will come to Him out of love,
Allah wanted to make him a leader of the universe to reward him for choosing to
be obedient. Allah also wanted to prepare man for the difficult test that will
hit him throughout his life (Al-Hayat Al-Donia). That is because the lust of
the soul together with the whispers of the devil - Al-Shytan - and the appeal
of disobedience will need strength and power so that man does not fall into
sins.
So Allah
gave man a universe to serve him, a universe that has everything that man would
need to save his life and to keep it going. The sun provides him with warmth
and brightens his day so that he can go on building the universe as Allah
ordered him. The earth provides him with the food, not only the essential
elements for man’s life, but also gives him the luxury of choice. It produces
different kinds of food from which he can select what he likes; a lot of vegetables
and fruits with distinct tastes, cattle that provides the meat to eat and the
wool to wear. In that universe man also has the water from the sky – the rain -
to save his life and to give life to animals and plants that serves him. And in
that way Al-Haqq has provided man a universe with all the elements of life in it,
so that he does not get distracted by those elements and forgets to serve and
obey Allah, the provider of life. That universe is the first privilege that
Allah (SWT) specified to man who is capable of choosing.
The second
privilege is that Allah created all those elements of life subject to man. They
can not stop doing their role in life, the sun can not say that it will rise
today and not tomorrow, the moon can not suddenly leave the sky and disappear,
the wind can not go far from the earth and prevent man from life, and the earth
can not say it will not blossom the plants. Everything that serves man in the
universe performs its role perfectly.
And that
oppressed universe is the unchanging universe, the good universe that never
tires anyone or ruins anything. Its’ rules are rigid and continuous and it is
all done by the decree of Allah so that man feels safe about his existence and
survival. In that way man is not busy with the timing of the sunrise nor is he worried
to find a way to get the water from the sky. He is not responsible of the succession
of the night and day nor does he need to find out the ways to maintain the
atmosphere around the earth. Allah relieved man from all those responsibilities
so that he is not distracted by the universe from the Creator of the universe.
To be continued....
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